Few moments in my travels have been as happily disorienting as on a previous visit, when I stood on the silent sidewalk after closing time with Mr. Barnhart, Mr. Hellman of Alotta Gelato and his wife, Starr Belsky, deep in food-geek talk about 19th-century French cookbooks.
Anyone who doubts the potential strength of such a sect need only have witnessed the protest Sunday, when the followers seemed to appear from nowhere, sitting immobile and silent on sidewalks in the heart of Beijing.
He saw a number of men and women prone and silent on the sidewalk... Hirriedly he shouldered the nearest unconscious man and sped across the street.
Those who could not fit inside the Shomrei Hadas Chapels to mourn the victims in Friday's helicopter crash in Arizona listened to the broadcast from sound trucks, standing silent on the sidewalk or crying quietly at the bus stop on 14th Avenue as the five-hour marathon of grief ground on.
The 22-acre site is surrounded by silent parking lots, barren sidewalks and rarely traveled roads.
On Alabama Avenue, the marchers turned right, passing lines of silent white citizens on the sidewalks.
Abandoned between the sidewalks, in small silent streets and hidden behind the weeds, in ditches – one of the preferred places of the cartel for their executions.
The tame, conventional direction is a surprise from Charles Lane, who wrote, produced and starred in "Sidewalk Stories". That silent black-and-white film gained him great praise and attention as part of the crop of talented young black directors.
The proposed settlement is silent on who is legally responsible for sidewalks next to private property — leaving the door open for that kind of program, Shoup suggests.
Sometime later, we pass a group of men walking along the edge of the road (there are no sidewalks), and once again the driver falls silent.
